story: “Nashua” author: Sara Majka year: 2016 where: on the golden sofa note: the kind of story that makes you want to write stories a line: “I cried some nights as I wanted a child back then and I was almost past the point of being able to have one.”
story: “Saint Andrew’s Hotel” author: Sara Majka year: 2016 where: Greece note: from Cities I’ve Never Lived In a line: “Peter stayed in the hospital until he was twenty-one; nobody could find his parents, and the hospital had put him to use in the kitchen.”
story: “Minitures” author: Sara Majka year: 2016 where: Flight to Athens note: from Cities I’ve Never Lived In a line: “One day I reached out and touched the man I was tutoring. It didn’t surprise him, but it surprised me.”
story: “Reverón’s Dolls” author: Sara Majka year: 2016 where: Flight to Athens note: from Cities I’ve Never Lived In a line: “Maybe ten or eleven years ago, when I was in the middle of a divorce from a man I still loved, I took the train into the city.”
story: Cities I’ve Never Lived In author: Sara Majka year: 2015 where: Fiumicino Airport, Roma note: As someone who has traveled places grand and bland alone, this story felt sometimes like a mirror. a line: “I thought that those few people passing out food—with their hands in little plastic gloves, and their cross behind them—should not be our major defense against this kind of poverty; as a defense it felt hopeful, frail, and largely hidden.” bonus line: “I said […]
